Infants, Gas and OPEC

I've noticed that infants (represented by our infant in specific) generate a lot of personal gas. This makes me wonder if such fuel, motivated by any infant's desire to motor across the floor at a time in their life when they obviously cannot, could be somehow used to power a sort of floor-cart. One could strap the infant in and leave him to his devices so that, when the fuel would kick in, he could motor about the living room, bouncing off walls and furniture.

Of course, this line of thinking brings to mind the memory of a little dog that I once had the misfortune to dog-sit while a poor college student (I was the student, not the dog). The little dog produced tremendous amounts of natural gas and, having rather stubby, irrelevant legs, probably would have enjoyed sitting in the floor cart. In fact, that little dog (who I loathed for its habit of "skating" across carpets, which it did by sitting down on its messy rear-end and then pulling itself around by its forepaws) produced enough gas to have warranted a lifetime membership in OPEC.